Subject: Re: libfreevec benchmarks

From: "Ryan S. Arnold" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:50:29 -0500

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 12:44 -0500, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
> Today, if glibc is configure with --with-cpu=970 it will actually
> default to the power optimizations for the string routines, as
> indicated
> by the sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc[32|64]/970/Implies files.  It'd be
> worth
> verifying that your baseline glibc runs are against existing optimized
> versions of glibc.  If they're not then this is a fault of the distro
> you're testing on.

I intended to say that "it will actually default to the POWER4
optimizations"

Regards,
Ryan S. Arnold
IBM Linux Technology Center
Linux Toolchain Development